There's no better time to learn about infectious diseases and how they shape and reflect a society's priorities, politics, and economy than in the middle of the worst global pandemic of the century.

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Epidemiology is considered to be the cornerstone of public health, enabling the study of distribution patterns that assist with identifying the determinants of health and disease conditions. This ...

Cuba's successful containment of COVID-19 through door-to-door screening of every home in the country, shows how 'shoe-leather' epidemiology could have averted the dramatic failure of the UK's ...

Validation of a geriatric screening test to detect frailty in elderly cancer patients: Improving the G8 test. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk has found that vegetarian diets are associated with lower risks of several cancers—breast, prostate, kidney and pancreatic cancers, and ...

Photo from Pexels.com What kind of person chooses a field that involves long hours, hard choices, and a system that often seems two steps behind? These days, more people than ever. As healthcare ...

Objectives To explore the epidemiology, incidence and distribution of sports-related concussion (SRC) among middle- and high-school students from Japan sustained during extracurricular sports.Methods ...